Self closing window

**DBookatay** · 02-14-2006, 05:45 PM

This might sound like a wierd question, but is there a way to automatically have a popup window close as soon as it opens?

I have a popup that triggers a PHP download, and opens it into MS Excel, then I'd like the window that launched the download to automatically close.

I've tried everything I can think of:
<body onload="self.close()">
<body onblur="self.close()">
<body onload="document.close()">

I'm out of ideas...

Just incase this matters, here's the complete page code:
<?php

require_once ('include/mysql_connect.php');

$select = "SELECT * FROM vehicles where status = 'Active' or status = 'Pending'";
$export = mysql_query($select);
$fields = mysql_num_fields($export);

for ($i = 0; $i < $fields; $i++) {
$header .= mysql_field_name($export, $i) . "\t";
}

while($row = mysql_fetch_row($export)) {
$line = '';
foreach($row as $value) {
if ((!isset($value)) OR ($value == "")) {
$value = "\t";
} else {
$value = str_replace('"', '""', $value);
$value = '"' . $value . '"' . "\t";
}
$line .= $value;
}
$data .= trim($line)."\n";
}
$data = str_replace("\r","",$data);

if ($data == "") {
$data = "\n(0) Records Found!\n";
}

header("Content-type: application/x-msdownload");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=Inventory.xls");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");
print "$header\n$data";

?>

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body onload="self.close()">
 
</body>
</html>

**CAL** · 10:17 PM

You could try this

Code:

<SCRIPT>
   var howLong = 5000;
   t = null;
   function closeMe(){
   t = setTimeout("self.close()",howLong);
   }
   </SCRIPT>

This will close your window after 5 seconds. You can change it for your own specifications....

Also, your examples should look like:
<body onload=self.close();>
<body onblur="self.close();>
<body onload="document.close();>